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Zipnosis, a digital health company based in Minneapolis, is playing an important role in enabling patients to communicate with health care providers without leaving their homes. Since 2008, Zipnosis' Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Daniel Forbes
The TPQL learning concept can work for classrooms and programs beyond entrepreneurship It's a simple and engaging way to help students learn complex topics. Many of us remember that one infamous Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Lars Oddsson
Health care is a hotly debated topic in the US -- how it's delivered, whether the government or employers pay for it, how research on promising new drugs is funded and other issues. "Innovation" is Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Author: Eapen Chacko
Scimed and Edwards Life Sciences show how established companies can disrupt their own products and customers before competitors do it for them. One of the benefits of achieving “late middle age” Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Author: John Seaberg
MinuteClinic founder Linda Hall shares lessons from 100 investor meetings on timing, valuation, runway, due diligence, pitching and handling rejection. Entrepreneurs are generally far more interested Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Linda Hall
Indian drug makers moved from reverse engineering generics to world-class R&D after policy and patent reforms changed the incentives for innovation. Emerging economies typically get a boost when Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Authors: Kristin Brandl , Ram Mudambi and Vittoria G. Scalera
Linda Hall explains how she helped rescue MinuteClinic from financial trouble and build momentum for a new model of convenient healthcare delivery. In 2002, both Linda Hall and her new company -- Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Daniel Forbes and Linda Hall
Lifesaving discoveries can fail if reimbursement, adoption and customer needs are considered too late. Market insight should shape biomedical innovation from the start. “ Entrepreneurship starts Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Phillip Phan
Venture Capital 101: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Seeking Funding Venture capital funds only a small share of startups. Learn how VC firms work, what investors want and what founders should expect if they get funded. The financial market can be daunting for new Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Eapen Chacko
Entrepreneurs can apply creativity, urgency and execution to challenges such as poverty, hunger, disease and clean water while building organizations that create lasting impact. Entrepreneurs are not Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Tina Cornely